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Great white shark tracked in Gulf of Mexico

Associated Press, AP 10:58 a.m. EDT April 30, 2014

GANSBAAI, SOUTH AFRICA: An undated file photograph of a Great White Shark swimming off Gansbaai, about 180 kms from Cape Town. Following a great white attack on a young surfer last week off Muizenburg, tour operators are accused of making the waters dangerous by 'chumming' where the operators throw a mixture of fish blood and oil into the water to attract the great whites.(Photo: ANNA ZIEMINSKI AFP/Getty Images)

The shark was tagged during an August 2013 Ocearch expedition off Cape Cod. The expedition included scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

Researchers say "Betsy" dropped off the radar shortly after she was captured and released, staying underwater where her satellite tag wouldn't trigger a location signal. When her tag pinged on Friday, "Betsy" became the first great white shark from one of Ocearch's Atlantic Ocean expeditions to be tracked in the Gulf of Mexico.

Screen shot of Betsy's location on April 25th, 2014(Photo: Ocearch.org)

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: A photo taken 13 May 1999 shows a grey nurse shark swimming among bathers at Oceanworld in Sydney where overseas triathlon competitors have expressed fears of a possible shark attack. Divers riding underwater scooters will use the sonar pods to scare away sharks at the World Cup triathlon in Sydney Harbour on 16 April 2000. TORSTEN BLACKWOOD AFP/Getty Images

(FILE PHOTO) A shark swims in a tank at the New York Aquarium August 7, 2001 in Coney Island, New York City. Florida''s Pasco county issued a shark warning August 14, 2001 after hundreds of sharks were spotted schooling off the coast near a popular beach area. Mario Tama Getty Images

GANSBAAI, SOUTH AFRICA: An undated file photograph of a Great White Shark swimming off Gansbaai, about 180 kms from Cape Town. Following a great white attack on a young surfer last week off Muizenburg, tour operators are accused of making the waters dangerous by 'chumming' where the operators throw a mixture of fish blood and oil into the water to attract the great whites. ANNA ZIEMINSKI AFP/Getty Images

GANSBAAI, SOUTH AFRICA: A diver clings 16 September to the side of a cage towed by a powerboat, as a five meter (yard) Great White Shark thrashes its tail while it attacks bait thrown to it off the coast of Gansbaai, about 100 kilometres (63 miles) from Cape Town. Tourists pay about 100 dollars to don scuba gear, enter the cage and are treated to the awesome sight of a Great White just a swish of a tail away. ANNA ZIEMINSKI AFP/Getty Images

Boulogne-sur-Mer, FRANCE: French windsurfer Raphala Le Gouvello (C), flirt with sharks in the aquarium of the National Sea center Nausicaa, 22 June 2005 accompanied by deputy manager Nicolas Hirel, during a training for her next spring attempt to cross the Indian ocean on a windsurf, between Exmouth, Australia and Diego Suarez, north of Madagascar. Le Gouvello, 45 was the first woman to cross the Atlantic ocean on a windsurf in 2000, and the Pacific in 2003. FRANCOIS LO PRESTI AFP/Getty Images

XIAN, CHINA - FEBRUARY 14: (CHINA OUT) A diver feeds sharks inside a giant aquarium before a ceremony held for a young Chinese couple locking their lover's lock, at an underwater world exhibition on Valentine's Day February 14, 2006 in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. Valentine's Day is getting increasingly popular among China's younger generation. China Photos Getty Images

Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA: A diver feeds a shark at the Aquarium in Kuala Lumpur, 12 June 2006. For the first time in Malaysia, "Dive with Sharks" offers the experience of a lifetime for visitors to get up close and personal with Kuala Lumpur Aquaria most fascinating marine life of the deep ocean such as the Sand Tiger Sharks, Giant Blotched Fantail Ray, Moray Eels, Giant Groupers and other mesmerizing denizens of the underwater world. TEH ENG KOON AFP/Getty Images

The fin of a shark breaks the surface near the 'Miracla' beach, 20 August 2007, in Tarragona city. Biologists of the Barcelona Aquarium have un successfully tried to capture the animal, a Mediterranean grey nurse shark, which is considered as harmless for humans, usually feeding on fish. LLUIS GENE AFP/Getty Images

A shoal of 15,000 sardines makes various shapes as a sand tiger shark swims in a large tank at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Aquarium in Yokohama, in Kanagawa prefecture, suburban Tokyo on May 18, 2008. The aquarium started its new attraction -- the "sardine illusion" -- to mark the aquarium's 15th anniversary. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO AFP/Getty Images

TO GO WITH AFP STORY (FILES) File picture of a shoal of 50,000 sardines swimming around sand tiger sharks in a large fish tank during a press preview at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Aquarium in Yokohama, in Kanagawa prefecture, suburban Tokyo on March 19, 2009.- A third of the world's open water sharks, including the Great White and Hammerhead, face extinction, according to a global conservation status survey released on June 25, 2009. YOSHIKAZU TSUNO AFP/Getty Images

A Great White shark jumps out of the water as it bites a fake decoy seal near False Bay, in this July 4, 2010 file photo. At least two Great White sharks have been spotted near a beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in July 2012 causing anxiety and excitement among tourist and locals. The sharks, one measuring nearly five meters, were spotted on July 3, reports the website Capecodsharkhunters.com. Media reports conclude that the increase in the seal population in the area has attracted the sharks. CARL DE SOUZA AFP/Getty Images